diff --git a/lib/internal/bootstrap_node.js b/lib/internal/bootstrap_node.js
index 6380506b72ee1b..744dfa93e5de2e 100644
--- a/lib/internal/bootstrap_node.js
+++ b/lib/internal/bootstrap_node.js
@@ -449,8 +449,10 @@
     const vm = NativeModule.require('vm');
     const internalModule = NativeModule.require('internal/module');
 
-    // remove shebang and BOM
-    source = internalModule.stripBOM(source.replace(/^#!.*/, ''));
+    // remove Shebang
+    source = internalModule.stripShebang(source);
+    // remove BOM
+    source = internalModule.stripBOM(source);
     // wrap it
     source = Module.wrap(source);
     // compile the script, this will throw if it fails
diff --git a/lib/internal/module.js b/lib/internal/module.js
index 8fc8dfbf327e61..a2f990ee643073 100644
--- a/lib/internal/module.js
+++ b/lib/internal/module.js
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 exports = module.exports = {
   makeRequireFunction,
   stripBOM,
+  stripShebang,
   addBuiltinLibsToObject
 };
 
@@ -50,6 +51,40 @@ function stripBOM(content) {
   return content;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Find end of shebang line and slice it off
+ */
+function stripShebang(content) {
+  // Remove shebang
+  var contLen = content.length;
+  if (contLen >= 2) {
+    if (content.charCodeAt(0) === 35/*#*/ &&
+        content.charCodeAt(1) === 33/*!*/) {
+      if (contLen === 2) {
+        // Exact match
+        content = '';
+      } else {
+        // Find end of shebang line and slice it off
+        var i = 2;
+        for (; i < contLen; ++i) {
+          var code = content.charCodeAt(i);
+          if (code === 10/*\n*/ || code === 13/*\r*/)
+            break;
+        }
+        if (i === contLen)
+          content = '';
+        else {
+          // Note that this actually includes the newline character(s) in the
+          // new output. This duplicates the behavior of the regular expression
+          // that was previously used to replace the shebang line
+          content = content.slice(i);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return content;
+}
+
 exports.builtinLibs = [
   'assert', 'buffer', 'child_process', 'cluster', 'crypto', 'dgram', 'dns',
   'domain', 'events', 'fs', 'http', 'https', 'net', 'os', 'path', 'punycode',
diff --git a/lib/module.js b/lib/module.js
index fe83cd0ecb8a26..c4576a4bbdd654 100644
--- a/lib/module.js
+++ b/lib/module.js
@@ -537,33 +537,8 @@ var resolvedArgv;
 // the file.
 // Returns exception, if any.
 Module.prototype._compile = function(content, filename) {
-  // Remove shebang
-  var contLen = content.length;
-  if (contLen >= 2) {
-    if (content.charCodeAt(0) === 35/*#*/ &&
-        content.charCodeAt(1) === 33/*!*/) {
-      if (contLen === 2) {
-        // Exact match
-        content = '';
-      } else {
-        // Find end of shebang line and slice it off
-        var i = 2;
-        for (; i < contLen; ++i) {
-          var code = content.charCodeAt(i);
-          if (code === 10/*\n*/ || code === 13/*\r*/)
-            break;
-        }
-        if (i === contLen)
-          content = '';
-        else {
-          // Note that this actually includes the newline character(s) in the
-          // new output. This duplicates the behavior of the regular expression
-          // that was previously used to replace the shebang line
-          content = content.slice(i);
-        }
-      }
-    }
-  }
+
+  content = internalModule.stripShebang(content);
 
   // create wrapper function
   var wrapper = Module.wrap(content);